Expert swordsman Kronos and his hunchback assistant travel from village to village hunting vampires. Their search leads them to a village where the young girls are being drained of their youth. Suspicion immediately falls upon the newcomers but Kronos’ quest leads him to the local aristocrats, the Durwards.
Trying to revive their flagging vampire formula in the 70s, Hammer turned to all manner of weird stories. Ditching the period settings that had served them so well but ultimately grown stale and old-fashioned, they tried transplanting Dracula into modern day England, looked at lesbian vampires and even mixed it up a bit with the kung fu genre, all with varying degrees of success both commercially and critically.
In an attempt to liven up their period pieces, they opted to go for broke. Hammer combined their traditional vampire formula with the old swashbucklers to give us Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, what...
Trying to revive their flagging vampire formula in the 70s, Hammer turned to all manner of weird stories. Ditching the period settings that had served them so well but ultimately grown stale and old-fashioned, they tried transplanting Dracula into modern day England, looked at lesbian vampires and even mixed it up a bit with the kung fu genre, all with varying degrees of success both commercially and critically.
In an attempt to liven up their period pieces, they opted to go for broke. Hammer combined their traditional vampire formula with the old swashbucklers to give us Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, what...
- 10/28/2011
- by Andrew Smith
- DailyDead
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